CDIST-TYPE__APT_BACKPORTS(7)

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version 7.0.0 · 8 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ cdist-type__apt_backports ✨

okay bestie, welcome to cdist-type__apt_backports — the cdist manual page that gets your OS those shiny newer packages 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

cdist-type__apt_backports — install backports, no cap 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this is a singleton type, which means it installs backports for the current OS release. That's it, that's the job 🫶

It will abort if backports aren't supported for the OS you specified, or if it couldn't fetch a version codename at all (think Debian unstable, it's giving chaos 😭).

The package index gets automatically updated if that's required. Lowkey handy, highkey convenient ✨

It supports backports from these OSes, periodt:

  • Debian
  • Devuan
  • Ubuntu

🦋 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 🦋

None. Not a single one. You're free, you're unbothered, you're iconic 👑

✨ OPTIONAL PARAMETERS ✨

  • state — this is the state of the backports repository. It's either present or absent, and it defaults to present. This value gets passed directly to cdist-type__apt_source(7), so it's not doing anything sneaky behind the scenes 💜
  • mirror — the mirror you want to fetch the backports from. It defaults to the generic mirror of the current OS. This one also gets passed directly to cdist-type__apt_source(7). Slay 🌈

🎀 BOOLEAN PARAMETERS 🎀

None. Zero. Nada. The vibes are simple here 🙈

💌 MESSAGES 💌

None either. It's a quiet queen, she doesn't text back 💀

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Setting up the backports, three ways, pick your fighter:

# setup the backports
__apt_backports
__apt_backports --state absent
__apt_backports --state present --mirror "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/"

And then installing an actual backports package — this example is currently for the buster release backports:

# install a backports package
# currently for the buster release backports
require="__apt_backports" __package_apt wireguard \
     --target-release buster-backports

Look at that require= doing the most. Obsessed 😭💖

😭 ABORTS 😭

  • It aborts if the detected os is not Debian.
  • It aborts if no distribuition codename could be detected. This is common for the unstable distribution, but there is no backports repository for it already. (Yes, "distribuition" — we keep the lore exactly as it is, bestie 🫶)

💀 CAVEATS 💀

For Ubuntu, this type sets up all components for the backports repository: main, restricted, universe and multiverse. The thing is, the user may not want to install proprietary packages — and those will only get installed if the user explicitly uses the backports target-release. The user may change this behavior to install backports packages without needing to explicitly select it. Read that twice, it matters, fr fr 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Matthias Stecher <matthiasstecher at gmx.de>

🍓 COPYING 🍓

Copyright (C) 2020 Matthias Stecher. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

ungleich GmbH 2021

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖✨ version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 2022, straight from the cdist-type__apt_backports(7) archives — go forth and backport responsibly 🎀🦋🌸

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